revolt

  • 21revolt — /rəˈvoʊlt / (say ruh vohlt) verb (i) 1. to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny. –verb (t) 2. to affect with disgust or abhorrence.… …

  • 22revólt — a m (ọ̑) knjiž. upor, odpor: zatreti revolt prebivalstva; politični revolt / revolt proti starim normam …

    Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika

  • 23revolt — 1. verb a) to rebel, particularly against authority The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserved. b) to greatly repel Your brother revolts me! 2. noun …

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  • 24revolt — Synonyms and related words: antagonism, antipathy, appall, arise, backlash, bloodless revolution, bouleversement, boycott, boycottage, break, breakdown, breakup, cataclysm, catastrophe, challenge, civil disorder, clashing, clean slate, clean… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 25revolt — re•volt [[t]rɪˈvoʊlt[/t]] v. i. 1) to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; rebel: to revolt against the government[/ex] 2) to refuse to accept or be subjected to some authority, condition, etc 3) to turn… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 26revolt — A revolt goes beyond insurrection in aim, being an attempt actually to overthrow the government itself, whereas insurrection has as its objective some forcible change within the government. A large scale revolt is called a rebellion and if it is… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 27Revòlt — Kòmansman yon revolisyon. Menmsi revòlt se kòmansman revolisyon, tout revòlt pa rive bay yon revolisyon …

    Definisyon 2500 mo Kreyòl

  • 28Revolt — Das Rennspiel Re Volt ist 1999 von der Firma Acclaim für Windows, Nintendo 64, PlayStation und Dreamcast programmiert worden. Man fährt kleine unzerstörbare, ferngesteuerte Autos, die in Meisterschaften und anderen Aufgaben freigeschaltet werden …

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  • 29Revolt —    The Dutch Revolt, beginning in 1568, was the result of sev eral political and religious conflicts. The high nobility felt neglected by the centralizing policy of the government with its seat in Brus sels and of the Spanish king Philip II of… …

    Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands

  • 30revolt — [16] Latin volvere meant ‘roll’ (it is the source of English vault ‘jump’). Addition of the prefix re ‘back’ produced revolvere ‘roll back, unroll’, hence ‘come to the original point, return, revolve’. English acquired this as revolve [14], and… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins